Sage of Humanity
Chapter 879 - 877: Level 8 Demon Sealing Array

Exploring those stone houses, occasionally yielding some harvest.

It is unknown who used to live here, but they seemed to have had a habit of using fire spirit stones to make furniture. Chairs, tables, and some other objects whose purposes Lu Ye could not fathom were all carved from fire spirit stones.

Thousands of years without any visitors, the fire spirit power here is extremely dense and active, making the purity of these artifacts very high and of good quality.

Ying Wuji and his team were mining fire spirit stones from the top of the cliff, but the real treasure was hidden in this dilapidated city.

Rather than laborious mining, picking up what's ready-made yields more.

In such a vast city, searching efficiency for one person isn't high. Even though Lu Ye wasn't slow, wanting to completely search the city wasn't easy.

After a brief contemplation, Lu Ye took Amber out of the spirit beast sack and summoned Yiyi.

"Lu Ye, what is this place?"

Amber had been kept in the spirit beast sack for some time, and Yiyi naturally hadn't seen daylight. Appearing suddenly in such a strange place, she was understandably confused.

"A treasure land!" Lu Ye briefly explained the current situation.

Yiyi instantly understood: "I got it."

She was to help find the fire spirit stones hidden in this city.

"Be careful, there's a group of Ten Thousand Demons Ridge people here, led by Ying Wuji, don't let them spot you."

"Okay." Yiyi nodded and quickly disappeared, with Amber following suit.

With Yiyi's help, the efficiency of treasure hunting doubled. This round's harvest would surely be bountiful.

He continued searching, not leaving any stone house untouched, even the collapsed ones were carefully explored by Lu Ye, occasionally finding something.

More than two hours later, Lu Ye held a round disc carved from fire spirit stone in his hand, examined it closely.

This disc was palm-sized, with obvious marks of artificial carving, like the furniture he had collected before.

It clearly wasn't a piece of furniture, and looked more like a plate.

But the dish was too shallow to hold anything.

What caught Lu Ye's eye were the numerous complex patterns on the surface. At first glance, it looked like a spirit rune, but due to the passage of time, many of the patterns were damaged, making it difficult to discern the complete appearance of the rune.

After observing for a while, Lu Ye activated his spirit force and infused it into the disc, attempting to follow the original pattern traces to repair the damaged areas.

This wasn't difficult for him, similar to the array test he experienced in the Hundred Arrays Pagoda.

Whether he could restore this unknown spirit rune completely was up to luck; the patterns were too damaged, and he had no idea what they originally looked like.

Moments later, Lu Ye's expression grew peculiar.

As he repaired the broken spirit rune, the patterns gradually revealed themselves. The more he looked, the more the spirit rune on the fire spirit stone disc resembled an explosion spirit rune.

It was roughly similar to the explosion spirit rune he mastered, but with slight internal differences.

The construction of a spirit rune isn't fixed.

Take the spirit runes Lu Ye obtained from the Talent Tree, for instance; they differed from the ones he saw in books, and he compared these differences to conclude.

The same spirit rune, if constructed using the Talent Tree method, its power would be roughly one to two percent stronger than if learned from books.

This was already a considerable enhancement.

During the repair process, Lu Ye could basically determine that the carved patterns on the fire spirit stone disc were indeed explosion spirit runes, only with slight differences in construction.

Fire element is violent, and fire spirit stones inherently contain pure fire spirit power, making them the most unstable among all element spirit stones. Normally, they need to be handled lightly; if accidentally bumped, it could trigger an internal spirit force disorder and explosion...

If supplemented with explosion spirit runes, what would happen?

As a thought flashed through his mind, the repair of the spirit rune on the fire spirit stone disc reached its final stage.

When the last basic element was constructed and integrated, forming the explosion spirit rune, Lu Ye suddenly realized he was holding not just a fire spirit stone, but an extremely dangerous object that could explode at any moment.

The addition of explosion spirit runes made the already violent fire spirit power even harder to control.

Even with Lu Ye's True Lake cultivation, he couldn't help but feel a tinge of apprehension.

The fact that he felt this meant if it exploded in his hands, it would pose a certain degree of threat to him.

This disc was a killing weapon!

Lu Ye suddenly realized this issue.

This must have been used by the city's residents for killing enemies.

No wonder the many collapsed buildings bore signs of destruction.

Lu Ye thought they had fallen due to long-term disrepair, but now it seems the self-detonation of this weapon was a cause.

Who exactly lived in this city before? What kind of harsh environment could build a city and survive, while mastering such killing weapons?

Dispersing his spirit force, he undid the explosion spirit rune, and the unsettling feeling disappeared instantly.

Lu Ye put away the fire spirit stone disc and sent a message to Yiyi, telling her to be careful if she found similar items and not to bump them.

Continuing the search, the number of fire spirit stone discs like killing weapons wasn't many but also not scarce.

This showed the city's residents long ago indeed mastered a method to refine killing weapons using fire spirit stones.

Time passed, and after spending half a day in this underground city, Lu Ye had gained a lot.

The fire spirit stones were very useful to him, not only for his own cultivation; the Talent Tree could also ingest their spirit force to ignite the leaves.

In this way, for the short term, he needn't worry about the Talent Tree's resources.

Although it took him half a day, Lu Ye had only searched less than ten percent of the vast city, showing its vastness.

It was a rare opportunity, and the city held such massive benefits, it couldn't be missed.

Just as Lu Ye was about to continue searching, he suddenly felt a fluctuation of spirit force from the distance.

Looking up, he saw a continuous flicker of light and restless spirit force from that direction.

The direction where Ying Wuji's squad was located.

Attacked?

Lu Ye frowned. He and Yiyi had been here for half a day without seeing anything unusual; what had Ying Wuji encountered?

It couldn't be that the Haotian Alliance had attacked.

This place was under the jurisdiction of Ten Thousand Demons Ridge's Gushan City Pass, the closest Haotian Alliance pass being Cangyan Mountain Pass, which besides him, only had Nian Yuexian.

Nian Yuexian, a Divine Sea Realm powerhouse, wouldn't bother coming here to kill a bunch of Cloud River Realm cultivators.

Confused and unsure what was happening there, Lu Ye quickly sent a message to Yiyi, asked for her location, and hurried towards her.

Soon, he found Yiyi and Amber, promptly putting Amber back into the spirit beast sack.

Just as he was about to rush to Ying Wuji's team, a huge humming noise suddenly erupted, followed by earth-shaking movement and falling stones overhead.

Hovering in mid-air, Lu Ye looked down.

Below him, the canals crisscrossing the broken city, flowing with hot magma, had boiled over, spewing large bubbles and scattering magma.

Many stone houses collapsed one after another, looking like the world was about to fall.

Watching the numerous crisscrossing canals, Lu Ye suddenly realized something was amiss.

He hurriedly ascended, scanning the surroundings, and his eyes widened in shock.

From this height, he finally saw what was wrong.

The canals crisscrossing the entire underground city formed a pattern of a grand array, with countless canals forming the array's base, and the flowing magma providing the energy source for the array's operation.

Previously unnoticed due to the city's vastness, making it hard to perceive the whole picture.

Who could have thought that such a city harbors a hidden grand array?

What kind of array is this?

Steadying himself, Lu Ye observed, trying to correlate the numerous Array Path information in his mind.

Soon, the name of a grand array emerged in his mind.

Level 8 Demon Sealing Array!

The hidden array in the city below bore seven similarities to the Level 8 Demon Sealing Array, but considering the passage of time and changes in array paths, the array below should be the ancient Level 8 Demon Sealing Array.

This array was extremely complex in layout, so even Lu Ye hadn't set it up before as it was unnecessary.

The array emphasized sealing, having the effect of sealing and suppressing.

What was this array sealing?

From the current scene, even after many years, the array was still operational, as the constant flowing magma provided the array with energy.

No matter what the array sealed, the situation wasn't favorable.

Perhaps due to long-term disrepair, or their actions upon arrival, this array showed signs of collapsing; once it does, what's sealed would resurface.

What did Ying Wuji and his team encounter?

No time to ponder, Lu Ye turned and quickly flew to the entrance.

Best to leave early.

He had barely moved when the magma in the canals suddenly erupted, with towering columns of magma rising hundreds of feet high.

The entrance direction was completely submerged by the rising magma, no longer visible.

"Brother Niu!" Ying Wuji's voice echoed from not far away, sounding panicked.

Lu Ye looked over to see Ying Wuji leading several people fleeing in distress, followed by several humanoid figures.

These humanoids had flames burning on their bodies, with twisting and changing forms, sending out bursts of blazing fire, driving Ying Wuji and his team into wretched flight.

The ones who fought with Ying Wuji's team earlier should be these entities.

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